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is not about minutes passing on a clock for Dasein; it is about the tense interplay between two opposite poles of the world: the ruinance of our fascination with the environment, and the countermovement that frees us from our surroundings without ever freeing us entirely.

Returning to his earlier fascination with the New Testament, Heidegger invokes the Greek word kairos. The Greek language has two words for time: kairos and chronos. Chronological time is the kind measured objectively in days and minutes, which Heidegger wants to reject as a way of understanding the time of factical Dasein. By contrast, kairological time refers to the richness of one special moment, and thus fits much better with the sort of philosophy that Heidegger is trying to develop. The time of Dasein is not about minutes passing on a clock, but about the tense interplay between two opposite poles of the world: the ruinance of our fascination with the environment, and the countermovement that frees us from our surroundings without ever freeing us entirely.

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